CVE-2025-54380: apereo opencast

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-54380 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in apereo opencast. EPSS estimates a 0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 26-07-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 28-07-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Prior to version 17.6, Opencast would incorrectly send the hashed global system account credentials (ie: org.opencastproject.security.digest.user and org.opencastproject.security.digest.pass) when attempting to fetch mediapackage elements included in a mediapackage XML file. A previous CVE prevented many cases where the credentials were inappropriately sent, but not all. Anyone with ingest permissions could cause Opencast to send its hashed global system account credentials to a url of their choosing. This issue is fixed in Opencast 17.6.

• CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorThe product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
• CWE-522Insufficiently Protected CredentialsThe product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.